When any economy faces challenges, the first thing it should do is determine if it has any self-inflicted wounds, as those are the easiest to correct. The evidence is clear that the benefits of skilled immigration are high. The costs of bad immigration are also high. It is past time for the nation to stop shooting itself in the foot.

Immigration reform is a jobs solution that does not require cutting government programs or raising taxes.

If we had a high speed computing system and we had an ability to have very high speed access, I think we could design a system where we would have found those two people, they would have been stopped at Logan and we would have had a very significant understanding of what was going on.